Burroughs Quote by Truman Capote

“Flannery O'Connor had a certain genius. I don't think John Updike has, or Norman Mailer or William Styron, all of whom are talented, but…

— Truman Capote

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool -…

— Gregory Corso

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of…

— Brendan Fraser

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

— Joan Didion

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

— William S. Burroughs

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

— Jack Kerouac

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic…

— Oliver Harris

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward…

— Patti Smith

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder…

— Jack Kerouac

I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great…

— Shane Black

I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He…

— Kate Simon

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten…

— Nigel Kneale